How To Cook Butternut Squash in a Slow Cooker

Slow cookers are the best, since they do most of the work for you.

Cooking a butternut squash in your slow cooker is so easy to do and takes very little effort.

Once you make butternut squash in slow cooker recipe, you will never have it any other way. It comes out perfect every time.  

Once the butternut squash is cooked I could sit and eat a whole bowl with a little honey and cinnamon. Yum!

Ingredients for Butternut Squash in Slow Cooker recipe:

Butternut squash
Water

How to cook a whole butternut squash in the slow cooker

1. Place about 1 inch of water in the bottom of the slow cooker, or about a cup of water.

2. Cut a small butternut squash in half. scoop out all of the seeds. Save and rinse the seeds. Toast them later for a great snack. You know I don’t throw any thing away!

3. Place the butternut squash in slow cooker and put on the lid. Put the slow cooker on low for 8 hours.

4. The butternut squash will be done no matter what. No second guessing. It has cooked slowly for 8 hours and the butternut squash is perfect consistency.

5. Take a fork or a spoon and scoop out all the golden squash into a bowl or container to store and use for later. Try not to eat it all as you are putting it in the dish. This is really difficult for me.

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How to cook a whole butternut squash in the slow cooker

The butternut squash is perfectly cooked after 4-5 hours on high or 6-8 hours on low in the slow cooker. Enjoy your roasted butternut squash in the slow cooker.

Course Side Dish

Cuisine American

Keyword butternut squash, slow cooker

Prep Time 9 minutes

Cook Time 8 hours

Servings 4 People

Author Amy

Ingredients

• 1 Whole Butternut squash
• 1 cup Water

Instructions

1. Place about 1 inch of water in the bottom of the slow cooker, or about a cup of water.
2. Cut a small butternut squash in half. scoop out all of the seeds. Save and rinse the seeds. Toast them later for a great snack. You know I don't throw any thing away!
3. Place the butternut squash in slow cooker and put on the lid. Put the slow cooker on low for 8 hours.
4. The butternut squash will be done no matter what. No second guessing. It has cooked slowly for 8 hours and the butternut squash is perfect consistency.
5. Take a fork or a spoon and scoop out all the golden squash into a bowl or container to store and use for later. Try not to eat it all as you are putting it in the dish. This is really difficult for me.

Recipe Notes

Freeze flat in 1 quart freezer bags. This makes storing and thawing easy.

Once it is cooked the butternut squash can be stored in your fridge for about a week, or you can freeze it in containers or in quart size freezer bags. For more room in your freezer, lay them flat to freeze. Also this makes thawing so much quicker.

Do you have to peel a butternut squash before roasting in the slow cooker?

No. That is the beauty of roasting it in the slow cooker. All you need to do is scoop out the insides and leave the hard skin. I have to say that is my least favorite thing to do is peel a butter nut squash. 

Is butternut squash supposed to be hard to cut?

The quick answer is, yes. It is a winter squash. Winter squash are harder and more difficult to cut, but they last much longer without refrigeration compared to a summer squash lie zucchini. So always be careful when cutting into a butternut squash and have a large sharp knife.

You may not have ever cooked or made a butternut squash, so what do you do with it besides eat it or make soup?

Butternut squash is a wonderful substitute for anything pumpkin. It has a very similar taste and texture of a pumpkin, since these are both hard winter squash.

When you want to make that wonderful pumpkin dish and don’t have any any pumpkin, think about using butternut squash instead. I know I have made butternut squash in the oven and sometimes it is not done after an hour in the oven. Anything that cooks for 8 hours, it has got to be done! Try this easy butternut squash soup after it is cooked.

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What are you favorite butternut squash recipes?